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πολυίστωρ

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: πολυίστωρ πολυίστορος

Structure: πολυιστορος (Stem)

Sense

  1. very learned

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὁμοίωσ δὲ οὐδὲ ὄρνισ, ὁ δὲ πολυίστωρ Ἀρχέστρατοσ ἐπαινέσασ τὰσ κατὰ Τειχιοῦντα τῆσ Μιλησίασ τρίγλασ ἑξῆσ φησι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1272)
  • Ὀρφεὺσ μὲν κιθάρᾳ πλεῖστον γέρασ εἵλετο θνητῶν, Νέστωρ δὲ γλώσσησ ἡδυλόγου σοφίῃ, τεκτοσύνῃ δ’ ἐπέων πολυίστωρ θεῖοσ Ὅμηροσ, Τηλεφάνησ δ’ αὐλοῖσ, οὗ τάφοσ ἐστὶν ὅδε. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 1591)
  • ὁ δὲ ποιητὴσ πολύφωνόσ τισ ὢν καὶ πολυίστωρ δίδωσιν ἀφορμὰσ ὡσ οὐδὲ τούτων ἀνήκοόσ ἐστι τῶν τόπων, εἴ τισ ὀρθῶσ συλλογίζεσθαι βούλοιτο ἀπ’ ἀμφοῖν, τῶν τε χεῖρον λεγομένων περὶ αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν ἄμεινον καὶ ἀληθέστερον. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 24:1)
  • καὶ μὴν πολυίστωρ, εἴ τισ ἄλλοσ, καὶ πάντα τὸν βίον, ὡσ αὐτὸσ εἴρηκεν, ὁ ταῦτα μυθεῖσθαι βουλόμενοσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 5 25:12)
  • μαρτυρεῖ δέ μου τῷ λόγῳ Ἀλέξανδροσ ὁ πολυίστωρ λέγων οὕτωσ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 311:1)
  • ἀλλὰ Δημήτριοσ ὁ Μάγνησ, ὃσ ἔδοξε γενέσθαι πολυἵστωρ, ἐν τῇ περὶ τῶν ὁμωνύμων πραγματείᾳ λέγων καὶ περὶ τούτου τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ καὶ ὑπόληψιν παρασχών, ὡσ περὶ αὐτοῦ λέξων τι ἀκριβέσ, διεψεύσθη τῆσ δόξησ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Dinarcho, chapter 1 1:1)
  • ὡσ Ἀριστείδησ Μιλήσιοσ καὶ Ἀλέξανδροσ ὁ Πολυΐστωρ ἐν τρίτῳ Ἰταλικῶν. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 40 1:3)
  • καὶ Ἀλέξανδροσ ὁ Πολυΐστωρ ἐν τρίτῳ Ἰταλικῶν. (Plutarch, Parallela minora, section 40 4:1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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